Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xi

Introduction xv

1 Before the Deluge 1

1 Seekers After Truth 1

2 The British: Gentlemen and Players 8

3 The Russians: Temples of Espionage 18

2 The Storm Breaks 42

1 The 'Fiction Flood' 42

2 Shadowing Canaris 56

3 Miracles Take a Little Longer: Bletchley 68

1 'Tips' and 'Cillis' 68

2 Flirting With America 96

4 The Dogs That Barked 103

1 'Lucy's' People 103

2 Sorge's Warnings 110

3 The Orchestra Plays 114

4 The Deaf Man in the Kremlin 122

5 Divine Winds 135

1 Mrs Ferguson's Tea Set 135

2 The Japanese 141

3 The Man Who Won Midway 156

6 Muddling and Groping: The Russians at War 174

1 Centre Mobilises 174

2 The End of Sorge 178

3 The Second Source 183

4 Gourevitch Takes a Train 186

7 Britain's Secret War Machine 195

1 The Sharp End 195

2 The Brain 200

3 At Sea 212

8 'Mars': The Bloodiest Deception 222

1 Gehlen 222

2 'Agent Max' 227

9 The Orchestra's Last Concert 238

10 Guerrilla 252

1 Resisters and Raiders 252

2 Soe 258

11 Hoover's G-Men, Donovan's Wild Men 281

1 Adventurers 281

2 Ivory Towers 297

3 Allen Dulles: Talking to Germans 303

12 Russia's Partisans: Terrorising Both Sides 314

13 Islands in the Storm 328

1 The Abwehr's Irish Jig 328

2 No Man's Land 335

14 A Little Help from their Friends 346

1 'It Stinks, but Somebody Has to Do It' 346

2 American Traitors 365

15 The Knowledge Factories 385

1 Agents 385

2 The Jewel of Sources 392

3 Production Lines 400

4 Infernal Machines 415

16 'Blunderhead': The English Patient 428

17 Eclipse of the Abwehr 444

1 Hitler's Bletchleys 444

2 'Cicero' 457

3 The Fantasists 461

4 The 'Good' Nazi 470

18 Battlefields 480

1 Wielding the Ultra Wand 480

2 Suicide Spies 488

3 Tarnished Triumph 494

19 Black Widows, Few White Knights 501

1 Fighting Japan 501

2 Fighting Each Other 510

3 The Enemy: Groping in the Dark 515

20 'Enormoz' 521

21 Decoding Victory 533

Acknowledgements 557

Notes and Sources 559

Bibliography 579

Index 587